Case file · Folklore / legend
Pocong lockdown patrols
In April 2020 a village in Central Java had volunteers dress as pocong, shrouded ghosts of the dead, to scare residents into staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 CE · -7.68, 110.84 · status: account
The sceptical view
The 'ghosts' were people; the stunt worked partly by curiosity, drawing onlookers as much as scaring them.